President’s wife Olena Zelenska and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Austria to Ukraine Gernot Pfandler agreed to establish cooperation in the framework of the Biarritz Partnership. In particular, it is about getting Austrian expertise in building an inclusive and barrier free environment.

The Government should pay greater attention to the problems of the regions of Ukraine, in particular the mining towns, as stated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his speech at the All-Ukrainian Meeting of Coal Industry Workers of Ukraine.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has set a task to carry out full financial and personnel audit of state-owned coal enterprises shortly and to set up a coordination center for the transformation of the coal industry.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stresses the need to create a National Coal Regions Fair Transformation Program, which will envisage re-training and new jobs for miners, address the issue of access to education for the children of miners, and set up services in mining towns.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that one of the urgent problems of the coal industry was the wage arrears of the miners of the state mines, which should be paid in the coming months.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy congratulated Ukrainians who were evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan and are currently under observation at Novi Sanzhary Medical Center in the Poltava region on the return to their homeland. The Head of State expressed hope that soon all of them will be able to go to their families.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy participated in the award ceremony of the first grant contest of the Ukrainian Startup Fund.